For the second year in a row, Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers, this time for the 2026 fiscal year. The total amount for Ohio’s five private school voucher programs was $1.173 billion, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Nearly half of the money ($532.8 […]
As part of unprecedented spending on U.S. elections, the world’s richest man Elon Musk is funneling more than $7 million to try to reelect incumbent Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, according to an analysis of federal election data by a group demanding regulation of AI companies. The contributions by Elon Musk are not directly […]
New legislation coming at the tail end of the current Ohio General Assembly seeks to study early childhood education regulation in the state. Ohio House Bill 1023, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Josh Williams of Sylvania, would establish an “early childhood education governance and outcomes task force,” according to the language of the bill. “The […]
Oct. 12 marked nine years since my father was murdered. Nine years. Nearly a decade of birthdays, holidays, milestones, and ordinary moments marked by the absence of someone who should still be here. People often talk about grief as something that fades with time. What I’ve learned is that grief never ends. It evolves, but […]
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The No Kings coalition sponsored string of local rallies in Central Ohio Saturday, urging Ohio voters to vote early for the Nov. 3 midterm election. Early in-person voting is currently available at voters’ local county board of elections or designated early voting location. Find your early voting location here. Early in-person voting is available Monday […]
The prominent Guatemalan anti-corruption lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was fatally shot along with another man on Saturday at a sports center in Guatemala City. For years, Solórzano Foppa had been outspoken against Guatemala’s most powerful politicians, business leaders and companies. He was known for his anti-corruption work as head of the Criminal Investigations Directorate […]
Israeli settlers backed by IDF soldiers brutally assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday. Witnesses say dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs, sticks, slingshots and guns hurled rocks at Palestinian farmers, set olive trees ablaze and drove people from their fields. Veteran Washington Post photojournalist […]
Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in over 140 cities across France on Saturday, demanding relief from the high cost of living, more funding for public services and improvements to deteriorating schools, among other grievances. The demonstrations were the latest — and largest — in a series of protests that began in September with high […]
Hundreds of Thousands March in Over 140 Cities in France on Saturday, Millions of Protesters Participate in “No Kings” Demonstrations on Saturday in the U.S., Thousands March in Tunisia Against President Kaïs Saïed, Protests Continue to Roil Albania, as Demonstrators Call for Prime Minister to Resign, Brazil’s Lula Holds First and Only Debate with Flávio […]
Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle the rise and fall of the tech worker movement, its early victories, and the repression and slide to corporate control that followed. […]
We’re joined by Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa as she shares the story of Estrella Diamantina González, an undocumented transgender woman and trafficking survivor from Mexico caught up in the United States’ criminal and immigration systems. This summer, after serving a nine-year sentence in a Texas men’s prison, Diamantina González was released, but she wasn’t […]
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